FEMA is sitting on unused funds from past disasters

The Biden-Harris administration has warned it does not have enough money to make it through the hurricane season, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency is sitting on millions of dollars of unused funds. An August report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General found unliquidated money that was appropriated for past disasters, including $8.3 million from disasters in 2012 or earlier. “As of October 2022, FEMA estimated that 847 disaster declarations with approximately $73 billion in unliquidated funds remained open,” the report said. The report said these...